Trouble Installing Microsoft Office 2008 10.8

Getting a headache trying to find a clear answer on this -- if I can't install Office Entourage PowerPoint Excel on 10.8.3 in 2013, is it possible?
I just did an Erase and clean fresh install of Mountain Lion 10.8.3 (late 2011 MacBook Pro).
I have Microsoft Office Mac 2008 Upgrade (not worried about the Upgrade issue), however
My installer is version 12.0
To get to current 12.3.6 — I will need to run three updates manually (the Auto Update feature didn't work the last time I installed under 10.7 so I expect to do the same under 10.8):
12.1
12.2
12.3
I read there may be a problem running the three service pack updates manually because they may not work in the Apple Store Auto Update Software Update routines....
Has anyone done this or know of a clear source to confirm what to expect, how to install and update Office 2008?
PLEASE ADVISE

Figured out how to install Microsoft Office 2008 Upgrade 12.0 onto a fresh start-from-scratch clean 10.8x Mountain Lion install -- it is possible with no problems and here are instructions how to do it:
Manually download the following updaters:
Service Pack 1, 12.1.0: Office2008-1210UpdateEN.dmg
Service Pack 2, 12.2.0: Office2008-1220UpdateEN.dmg
Service Pack 3, 12.3.6 (or latest)
Run the Office 2008 installer from the install disk.
When the Upgrade prompts you for an eligible version, insert your full retail install disk, and point the updater to that disk's root folder — note my full retail Office 98 disk didn't work, but my Office 2004 full retail disk did the trick.
Run each Service Pack as needed.
After all are updates are manually ran, then run the Office software update.
I can confirm Office 2008 installed on Mountain Lion and appears to be working as expected on my Late 2011 MacBook Pro, 10.8.3.
Lanny& Barney-15E THANK YOU FOR THE CORRECT ANSWERS!

Similar Messages

G5 with Panther (10.3.9) but I need to install Microsoft Office 2008!

I'm working in a office where I use a G5 with Panther (10.3.9). I'm wanting to install Microsoft Office 2008 on this computer, however, it requires 10.4.9 or later, which I guess would mean an upgrade to Tiger? Anyone know a way to bypass this install, someone suggested possibly installing in Classic? Any help is greatly appreciated!

The minimum requirements won't allow you to install Office 2008 on anything less that what it states. That's normally due to changes in later versions of the OS, or newer features that don't exist in older OS versions that the program relies on to run.

Trouble installing Microsoft Office 2003 on my mac

Hello all,
I was just attempting to install Microsoft Office 2003 (Student and Teacher Edition) on my Mac and I haven't had much success thus far.
Basically I've put the install disc into my Mac, the disc icon pops up on my desktop, but I can't seem to get it to install. Should it be doing this automatically, or is there something else I need to do? I've tried dragging the disk icon to my applications folder, but not luck.
I feel like this is a relatively elementary issue, but I haven't been able to find any other help regarding this specific problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for your time,
Garrett

Office 2003 is for Windows only. 2004 and 2008 run on Mac OS.
If you are in fact using 2004 or 2008, then please post your question on Microsoft's own forums for their Mac products at http://www.officeformac.com/productforums

Trouble installing microsoft office 2013

When i try to install Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2013 32 bit i get the message "Please Wait, were sorry. It looks like another installation is running. Please wait until it's finished and try installing Office again" although i
do not have any other installations running. And once i press close to that Microsoft Bootstrapper "stops working" I have windows 7. Please help, thankyou!

Hi,
First, try to reboot your computer to check the issue, if the issue still occurs, then try the following methods.
Note: Modifying REGISTRY settings incorrectly can cause serious problems that may prevent your computer from booting properly. Microsoft cannot guarantee that any problems resulting from the configuring of REGISTRY settings can be solved. Modifications
of these settings are at your own risk.
I need you to check in the registry for a certain subkey that might be there. The subkey we are looking for is called “InProgress”
From your desktop click the Start
button
In the search field type “regedit” (do not hit enter, “regedit.exe” will appear in the start menu)
Right-click “regedit.exe” and select “Run as administrator”
(If you receive the User Account Control message, select continue or allow to proceed)
You should now be the Registry Editor.
Now we are going to browse to the following subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\InProgress
Expand HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Expand SOFTWARE
Expand Microsoft
Expand Windows
Expand CurrentVersion
Expand Installer
Under the “Installer” key do you see the subkey “Inprogress”, if so, right-click the “Inprogress” subkey and select delete.
After you delete the “Inprogress” subkey, close the Registry Editor and any other window that you may have open and restart your computer.
Jaynet Zhang
TechNet Community Support

Trouble installing Microsoft Office home and student 2010

Hi,
I'm new to Apple, i'm trying to insatl Microsoft office home and student 2010 onto my mac but it keeps saying "you can't open the application "setup.exe" because microsoft windows does not support the application"
could anyone help?
Kind regards
Jordan

Welcome to the Apple Support Communities
It looks like you are trying to install Office 2010 on OS X. That's not possible because that version is for Windows, so you have to install Windows on your Mac. As you are going to use it only for Microsoft Office, download Parallels, VMware Fusion or VirtualBox, and install Windows on a virtual machine.
Another option is to purchase Office for Mac > http://www.microsoft.com/mac

Anyone having trouble installing microsoft office mac home student ?

keeps saying i have to shut down safari, but even once i've shut safari down it still doesnt go to completion.... :S

Another point of interest at the end: If you see a blue, horizontal, oval light on the Dock under the Safari icon then Safari is open. The same applies to any application for that matter.
Clicking the red button at the top left corner of the window does not Quit Safari. Instead it closes the window. To properly Quit Safari, click the Safari menu, then click Quit Safari. Alternatively, Command-Q is the keyboard short cut.

I have Microsoft Office 2011 Student Edition installed on MacBook Pro; Can I install Microsoft Office Windows 2008 onto Mac without deleting Microsoft Office 2011?

I have previously installed Microsoft Office Student Edition 2011 on my MacBook Pro. While installing Microsoft Office 2008 Windows; message prompts to delete Microsoft Office 2011. Is there a way around this issue?

Office 2008 was a Mac version. The equvalent Win version is 2007. So there is no "Office 2008 Windows." Which version are your trying to install?
Are you using Boot Camp to run Win on your MBP and want to install Office for Win there? I can't see that being a problem..
I do know that the regular version of Office Mac won't run properly if the trial version is present. The installer is set up to look for other versions, resumably to keep the trial version and the regualr from clashing.
Office Mac 2011 is equiv to Office for Win 2010
Office Mac 2008 " " " Office for Win 2007
Office Mac 2004 " " " Office for Win 2003

Microsoft Office 2008 crashes when printing since upgrading to Yosemite

Ever since upgrading my Macbook Pro (late 2009) to OS X Yosemite I'm having trouble with Microsoft Office 2008. Whenever I try to print from any of the Office programs (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), the program will crash and the file will not print. I am still able to print from other programs (Safari, Preview, etc...). And aside from this I'm having no other issues with the Office programs. So at the moment I'm reducing to having to save files as a PDF and then printing from Preview. Can anyone help me troubleshoot?

I'm not sure if the printer driver is updated, it usually does that automatically...
That sounds magical but I have never had printer drivers automatically update themselves. After your upgrade to Yosemite, did you setup your printer using Print & Scan in System Preferences?
...office programs are the only ones crashing when I try to print, so wouldnt that indicate an Office issue rather than a printer driver issue?
No, not necessarily. See thread "microsoft office crashes when trying to print."
If you believe the your problem is an "Office issue" then you might try the Microsoft forum.

Unable to reinstall Microsoft Office 2008

The Genius Bar reinstalled my operating system (Mavericks). I have been unable to reinstall Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac. It doesn't seem to even be able to read the CD. Should I be able to install Microsoft Office 2008 or will I be forced to upgrade to 2011?

My experience with Microsoft Office on the Mac is that when reinstalling an operating system, Office asks you to resupply your authorization credentials. As I recall, that is something like a twenty character code that identifes you as a legitimate purchaser.
Once your Mavericks was reinstalled, how did you recover whatever you had on your machine previously? Was it still in place? Did you recover it from a backup? Did you attempt to run Microsoft Office from either the backup or where it had been before attempting the CD approach?

Help: My dock froze while installing Microsoft office: Mac

I was installing Microsoft Office 2008: Mac when the downloader got stuck at a certain point and the estimated time until finish is only increasing and the download bar is not moving. I tried to open up Firefox while this was happening and this resulted in me Force Quitting firefox and left me with a "Frozen Dock"
How should I handle this situation and should i cancel the download for office because their website says that i am entitled to a new product key since the download did not work.
Note: the microsoft office: mac that i am installing is from a disk, not the internet.
Message was edited by: Theisen

Theisen,
Welcome to Apple Discussions.
Your post is a little confusing, first you say you were installing MS Office via a downloader and then later you say you are installing it from a Disc. If you installing it via the install disc the you are doing just that, installing not downloading.
Also when doing an installation it's generally not a good idea to be working in other applications as it seems you were by trying to use Firefox.
My recommendation would be to restart your computer and ONLY run the MS Office installation per the instructions MS provides. Do not have any other applications running. If it still fails then contact MS, you should be able to find the number in the documentation you received with the product. After you have installed it then run updates for it to ensure you are on the most up-to-date version which is currently 12.2.4.
Regards,
Roger

How do I can I install MS Office 2008 on a MacBook Air w/ a valid product key? Can I download files somewhere?

How do I can I install MS Office 2008 on a MacBook Air w/ a valid product key? Can I download files somewhere?
Here's the scenario....
I've got a brand new gift MacBook Air 11" and I want to install Microsoft Office 2008 since I have a valid key license that's given by my nephew. Do I have any other options here? Can I download all the necessary files from somewhere officially and just enter the Product Key to install what I need? Are there other possible options?
Your help would be much appreciated.
Thank you very much.

You can use a remote disc to download Office as shown here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5287
But please note several cautions:
1. The product key is intended for one machine only. You would have to be the sole user.
2. Office 2008 is now very close to being obsolete. Office 2011 has been out for years, and Office 365 is available for your Mac as well.

How do I remove the microsoft office 2008 automator workflows?

Hey, first off all sorry if this isn't quite in the right place but there was a lot of forums to choose from!
Basically I have installed Microsoft Office 2008 with the automator workflows and now decide that I don't require them and would like to remove them but I am unsure how to go about this?
I know about the automator folder in system with the workflows in but don't want to delete any as I am afraid I will delete the wrong ones!
Thanks for your help
Joe

Joe Bradley wrote:
Thanks for your reply but this leads me on to the next question.. The reason for removing them is to remove the scripts icon at the far right of the top menu bar when an office application is running, I thought uninstalling the actions would remove this or am I completely wrong?
the scripts icon has nothing to do with office or office automator actions.
if you don't want it there just command+drag it off the sidebar.
The reason that it annoys me is because it creates a delay when you quit an office program
no, it doesn't. it makes no difference for office whether the scripts icon is there or not. this icon is there if you want to access some apple scripts. its mere presence has zero impact on speed of anything.
Thanks for your help!
Joe

Can I do a "clean install" of Microsoft Office 2008 on Lion 10.7.4?

I've got a macbook pro (early 2011) and want to install Microsoft Office. I'd rather pay less and just get Office 2008 instead of 2011, but I want to make sure that I'll be able to install it without any problems. I haven't installed any versions of microsoft office.

Kappy wrote:
Well, my old Office 2008 has a PPC-only installer. And, if you have read a lot of these similarly related questions you'll also see others who have had an installation issue because their installer requires Rosetta.
Now, my understanding from way back when is that some Office 2008 discs did indeed come with a PPC-only installer. Later on it was replaced with a UB installer. This came originally from MS as I seem to remember.
I'm geniunely surprised by that, I have ancient copies of 2008 (we used to install a lot of them) and they are all Universal, even Microsoft's technotes make no mention of a PPC installer (and these are the notes specific to Lion compatibility) so thanks for the info, now I will have to go through our collection of Office 2008 media and find one.
Copies of Office 2008 on sale now are unlikely to contain the PPC installer I would guess, and can be exchanged if they do.
But the OP should install 2011 (unless connecting to a 2003 Exchange Server which is not supported by Office 2011)

Installing Microsoft Office on Windows Server 2008 R2

Can I install Microsoft Office on Windows Server 2008 R2?
I'm not trying to use this installation from client machines, I just want to use this installation from the same machine.
It's a Home LAN, I need to develop some applications, but basically, the server should be used as any other machine by any member of the family.
Each machine will have it's own suite of Office Applications. It's just 3 machines
Believe you can do it, and you will!!

Yes, I've done that successfully, but I use the Volume Licensing edition (Professional Plus).
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee624351(v=office.14).aspx
If you have a Retail edition, it might not be as successful...
Don
(Please take a moment to "Vote as Helpful" and/or "Mark as Answer", where applicable.
This helps the community, keeps the forums tidy, and recognises useful contributions. Thanks!)

Is it ok to instal older versions of Microsoft Office 2008, Adobe Acrobat Professional 8.0, Adobe CS3 on a MacBook Pro Retina running Mountain Lion?

Is it ok to instal older versions of Microsoft Office 2008, Adobe Acrobat Professional 8.0, Adobe CS3 on a new MacBook Pro Retina running Mountain Lion?

Is it ok to instal older versions of Microsoft Office 2008, Adobe Acrobat Professional 8.0, Adobe CS3 on a new MacBook Pro Retina running Mountain Lion?

Trouble Installing Microsoft Office 2008 10.8

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for